“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it…”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then....I contradict myself; I am large....I contain multitudes.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses — I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“t doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only beli…”— Anaïs Nin, wordsofwomen.com
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”— William James, amazon.com
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“I think there’s a big difference between being a bad person and being bad at being a person.”— Megan Falley, amazon.com
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I always wanted to ask people: 'Are you in love? What are you reading?'”— Françoise Sagan, amazon.com
“There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It’s something one is born with and stuck with. It’s not something you make a decision about.”— Charles Simic, amazon.com
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I know she’s weird. Her friends know she’s weird. And we all accept it because she’s weird, but also amazing.”— Shelly Laurenston, amazon.com
“I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I’m not a ‘little bit’ kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.”— Elaine Stritch, people.com
“We may not be aware of it, but we are constantly changing our loyalties. The external self claims us at work or enjoying ourselves at a party or buying a new house. The private self claims us in matters of the heart, in moments of depression and anxiety, and in our family life. The unconscious self…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com